Romney got it right

Sept. 29, 2012 12:00 AM

Missing in the silly flap over Mitt Romney's "47 percent" remarks is that he actually told the truth, just somewhat inarticulately.

The various voting blocs that will probably vote for President Barack Obama come to about 47 percent of the electorate. Among those, certainly not all, are folks -- many of them young people --who have bought into Obama's fostering of the victim philosophy.

This was also a major theme at the Dems' convention: that the system is rigged against them, that corporate America is out to screw them. That they somehow are entitled to the fruits of others' labor because, after all, those successful people were just lucky.

And so, why should Romney waste precious resources trying to attract those voters? The 6 to 8 percent of undecided voters will probably decide this coming election.